The story is essentially irrelevant; yesterdays experiences are
yesterdays experiences. You cannot say the journey began anywhere, you cannot
say it ended; you cant even say that it happened. In the knowing that we are
lived, a relaxation happens.

We fell in love in 1973 and married a year later. There has only been one
conversation - consciousness - and that continues to this day.

Our first meeting with Sailor Bob Adamson was in Melbourne around Baba
Muktananda in 1974 and again at Muktanandas ashram at Ganeshpuri, India in
1976. Some people there were talking about visiting Beedi Baba (Nisargadatta):
Bob did, but we travelled south to Arunchala for Shiva Ratri.

Some 30 years later in 2006 we met Bob again. He said Full stop, and we
heard it clearly and understood.

Photo: ltr: Peter Lawry, Kalyani Lawry, 'Sailor' Bob Adamson

A heartfelt gratitude wells up to Bob and to all our teachers who have
pointed out what now seems obvious.

The Buddha categorically stated that there were not one or two, not a
hundred or two hundred or five hundred, but many more laymen and women leading
the family life who followed his teaching successfully and attained to high
spiritual states. So when keeping it in Mind, we should always remember that we
are all, may it be a celibate Monk or a Householder, living in the same Reality
that was categorized and defined by the Buddha through the Four Noble Truths. No
one of us, may it be the Monk or the Householder  can escape this Reality of
Suffering, but he can practice the Buddha Dhamma despite of the Mode of the
Practice he has chosen. Both of them are not only legitimate, but required,
supplemental and supporting each other; in order that the Monk can perform the
holy Duty of spreading the Dhamma and devote his live to the service of others,
for the good of the many and for the happiness of the many - whereas the
ordinary layman with a family cannot be expected to devote his whole life for
this Purpose - there must be a Householder that will support the Monk on this
Duty through Dana and through taking Care for this Aspect of Life. It was the
Buddha himself who taught us the Interconnectedness  the interlocking Non
Duality of everything in the Universe.

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